The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
peasants have overrun Willamette Valley,
Gal and are destrovinor the grain Groin


part of Paris are having their former stone
pavements changed to wooden ones.
AN EXAMINATION of wharves in San Francisco
recently showed the teredo to have done damage
that will require two men eight months TO
repair.
THE right to produce Verdi's latest opera,
"Otello," in this country has been secured by
Campanini, and it will be heard here during the
season.
THE paper money Of Germany is printed in
the Imperial Printing Office, Berlin, which has
force of about 800 employees and forty printing
presses.
a CURIOUS FACT noted by the st. James Gazette
is that there is hardly a regnng monarch in
Europe whose family is of the same nationality
ptr sang as the people governed.
THE DEFENSE of woman on trial in Green's
burg, Ind, for killing her husband is that she
was made crazy by finding in his pockets love
letters written by widow signing herself Jen-
ME James.
AT BALAKHAN, near Baku, Russia, a new petro-
leum spring. which rose $50 yards, flooded the
country, impregnating everything. Nobody
ventures TO light fire, for fear the town will go
off like fireworks
A LIGHTHOUSE OFFICIAL at Amherstburg, Ont,
is said to receive pay both from the United
States and Canadian governments, and the
Canadian Marine Department has sent an ex-
pert TO look into the case.
THOMAS WHIPPLE, of Sullivan county, lived
100 years without drinking whisky or riding on
a railroad The other night he went to bed in
very good health for a centenarian, and was
found dead in the morning.
AT MEsrERToN, ENGLAND, a ferret entered the
bed in which a four months child was sleeping
When discovered the infant had one eye torn
out and the flesh of its face lacerated in dread
full manner 1t died in short time
ELIZABETH STOCKTON, aged months, put her
head between the spindle rails of a chair her
mother had set against the bed to keep her from
falling out, and, being caught there by the neck,
was found SuffOcated to death when her mother
returned
HEART DISEASE, due to tight lacing,n was the
cause of death given by the Coroner's jury in
the case of Bertha Oppenheimer, of Philadel-
phia who fell back with a cry of pain while
laughing at a comedians joke in theatre in
that city Thursday afternoon,
OWING to the numerous congresses of physi-
sicans and naturalists held tLis seson in this
county Austria, Germany, Italy and England,
the FIRST International Cremation Congress in
Milan announced to take place last month, has
been postponed until next April.
A COMPOSITION by Emperor Dom Pedro l., of
Brazil, the father of the reignng sovereign, at
present SOJOuTDlUR III bdutn BdueD, GnUNIeu
"Rynule de Undergraduates was for the first
time executed there, according to the direction
of Dom Pedro H., who is himself a talented mu-
stefan.
AT TORONTO, lately, workman was refused
sixty cents in settlement of a claimed balance
due him of one dollar avowed his intention of
remaining about his employers door until the
dollar was forthcoming. He attempted to eX-
ecute his threat but was arrested ana fined one
dollar and costs.
Do nine-tenths of the Philadelphia girls smoke
cigarettes? At the recent convention in that
city of the County Woman's Temperance Union
Mrs. BiSsed, the Superintendent, is reported to
have said that she knows girl members of the
church who smoke, and is informed that nine
tenths of the girls puff the weed.
A WASHINGTON BICYcLER, wheeling through
New Jersey, became unmindful of his position
through curiosity to decipher the inscription
on finger board in the distance, and was given
a header" Gaining his feet, he walked to the
sign to find it read: Prepare to meet thy
God" 1t had been placed there by members of
the Salvation Army.
DENNIS FERGUSON, a negro, is known in Chi
cago as the King of the Bootblacks. He en-
ploys many assistants. his wife acts as cashier.
anu he is getting rich. He has 2.061 regular
customers who buy his tickets, of which 14S are
women. and he knows the faces and names of
the whole 1000 besides remembering the names
sees but seldom.
AN evening newspaper in an English town.
determined to beat its rivals on the report of
the great foot race between Hutchins and Gent
had its account written up beforehand and put
in type, with blanks left for the name of the
winner and other essential details, to be filled in
later. Instead of the race there was great riot
on the grounds, but the paper got the news too
late, and came out with its report of the race
blanks and all
AT the foot of the mountain Eggishorn, on
the southern slope of the Iungfrau in the can
ton of Wallis, Switzerland. Lake Merelen is To-
Gated. Last year the people intended to drain
off its water, and use the dry land for agricul-
tural purposes. One night a shock of earth
quake was felt in Wallis, and the next morning
the waters of the lake had disappeared and the
inhabitants may now partition out the ground
given them so very cheap.
To JUDGE FROM CHARTS in recent issue of
Nature the fashion in academic Scotland is
strongly toward medicine and the fine arts as
against law and theology, in which branches
the Scotch have heretofore been famous. Uni
versity training, thus broadened, is more popu-
lar than ever. Since 1869 the population of
Scotland has increased IS per cent, while the
total attendance at the universities has increased
IN the same period ~ per cent.
The California mountain lion is usually cow
ardly creature but the other day one of them,
unprovoked jumped from the bushes upon Lee
Downs, as he was coming out of the Humboldt
mountains in Nevada. and after mangiBg him
severely, fled as suddenly as he had appeared
Downs is a strong, large man, and an expert
enced mountaineer but so sudden was the at
tack and so severe the pain. that he tainted
away and lay unconscious for at least an hour.
THE pack of stag hounds recently brought
from Colorado, and in use by the Sun River
Range Association of Montana is reported
doing good service in the wolf-killing business
for which industry the dogs were purchased
Six of the hounds recently brought to bay
double their number of wolves and engaged
them in battle. doing to the death all but two of
the sheep and cattle destroyers Not few sin
gle combats have.occurred resulting in uniform
victory for the dog which has the advantage of
fieetness, pluck and strength A pair of hounds
can do up wolf in pretty short order. One
will toss the wolf in the air, and before the as
toniShed animal IS again on the ground he is
caught at neck and loin and torn aSunder. The
hounds are fed no meat, their diet being con
fined to corn bread and buttermilk in most part
the Range Association are satisfied that they
have made good investment in these wolf ex-
terminatorS.
On A sTRETcHER in the baggage car of a train
that arrived few days ago in Providence, R.
l., was an emaciated man, who had undergone
extraordinary hazard in his efforts to reach
home to die He was too sick to stand or even
to talk, and directions as to his mothers adj
dress were on the stretcher, on which he had
a companion. An open letter, of which the fol-
lowing IS copy, signed by Rev. l. A. Badneau
of lacadie, n. b, explained the strangers sad
plight ITO all those to whom these presents